DA’s Steenhuisen outraged at IEC’s sloppiness but glad he’s not ‘Mr Malema, Mr Mashaba or Mr Ramaphosa’, he says

Johnathan Paoli

Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has expressed his outrage at both the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) bungling of the elections, as well as the ruling party’s failure to curb the “vices” of its former President and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party leader Jacob Zuma’s vices.

Steenhuisen said at the media briefing on Friday at the Results Operations Centre (ROC) in Midrand, that he was happy with his party’s performance thus far. But said he was shocked at the IEC for failing the voters of South Africa and also threatened court action over the commission’s handling of the elections.

Steenhuisen said he believed there could have been up to 1% of disenfranchised people who were unable to vote, due to various logistical and other challenges.

He said that the commission’s handling of the elections was a complete disaster that not only caused the party harm but also potential voters